Escambia County News

Emergency leaders in Escambia County are encouraging residents of Pensacola Beach and nearby Perdido Key to evacuate as Hurricane Ida approaches.

Reports of attacks on two teenage cheerleaders at homes in Molino have left investigators with several unanswered questions.

Nov. 5 - A community is on high alert after three attacks on teenage girls. The first two attacks happened in Molino on Friday and Tuesday.

Two men were arrested Thursday and charged in an Oct. 23 homicide that occurred at a local bar.

Nov. 3 - The body of a missing Pensacola woman has been found. Samira Watkins, 25, had been missing since Thursday, when she left her son with a relative and said she was going to visit a friend.

It's not just football season in Pensacola. We have other contact sports - political fights over city government and the Community Maritime Park.

Location: 205 S. Baylen St. Founded: 1978. What they do: Hairstyling, electrolysis, massage therapy, manicure, spray tanning.

A group of tourism-related businesses in Navarre want to change the way members join the council that promotes Santa Rosa County to would-be vacationers.

An Escambia County, Fla., woman faces felony child neglect charges after deputies discovered her 17-year-old son living in a shed at the home of the woman's ex-boyfriend, the Pensacola News Journal reports.

A mother and her son are facing drug charges after deputies say they nearly burned down the home they were living in.

There could be more protests if Pensacola police officer Jerald Ard remains on desk duty.

Tonight investigators are searching for the men who went on an armed robbery spree early this morning in Escambia County.

Escambia County sheriff's investigators are still looking to identify suspects wanted in connection with two October homicides.

Hugh Wiggins says he told his wife not to be part of the ring that invaded Melanie and Byrd Billings' home in Beulah and left the couple dead in pools of blood.

Oct. 19 -- A clear-cut signal the case against the men accused of killing Beulah couple Byrd and Melanie Billings is moving forward: 36 CDs filled with the state's evidence in the case have been sent to the attorneys representing the defendants.

Escambia County investigators are searching for two men who robbed a bar early Friday morning and killed a patron.

Oct 23 - Police have released the surveillance video of a fatal robbery in Escambia County, Florida.

Former journalist David Klement is getting an early start in his new job as a state utility regulator, after Gov.

Leonard Gonzalez Jr., the man accused of killing Byrd and Melanie Billings, faces a new criminal charge of stabbing a fellow inmate with a pencil.

A $1 million bond has been set for a Bellview woman charged in the death of her 18-month-old daughter after the girl was found dead in a trash can.